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PUBLIC BODIES CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT 1889 - SECT 7

Interpretation.

7. In this Act

The expression "public body" means... [any district council established under
the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972], also any board,
commissioners, select vestry, or other body which has power to act under and
for the purposes of any Act relating to local government, or the public
health, or to poor law or otherwise to administer money raised by rates in
pursuance of any public general Act, but does not include any public body as
above defined existing elsewhere than in the United Kingdom:

The expression "public office" means any office or employment of a person as a
member, officer, or servant of such public body:

The expression "person" includes a body of persons, corporate or
unincorporate:

The expression "advantage" includes any office or dignity, and any forbearance
to demand any money or money's worth or valuable thing, and includes any aid,
vote, consent, or influence, or pretended aid, vote, consent, or influence,
and also includes any promise or procurement of or agreement or endeavour to
procure, or the holding out of any expectation of any gift, loan, fee, reward,
or advantage, as before defined.

S.9 rep. by 1975 c.62 s.23(2) sch.3

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